Eyelet.



UNITED STATES PATENT j OFFICE;

ARNOLD A. KUEHLHORN, OF LAKOTA, NORTH DAKOTA.

EYELET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,716, dated April 7,1903. Application filed December 18, 1902. Serial No. 135,807. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARNOLD A. KUEHL- HORN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Lakota, in the county of Nelson and State of NorthDakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eyelets, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had therein tothe accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to eyelets to be used in connection with articlesof apparel, and the object thereof is to provide devices of thischaracter particularly designed to receive flat lacings which willprevent transverse wrinkling or doubling over of the latter when thesame are drawn taut and which will further provide rolling supports forthe lacings to reduce the wear thereupon as the same are drawn back andforth through the eyelets.

Other objects of the invention will appear and be understood as theinvention is more fully disclosed.

To achieve the end sought, the invention. includes an eyelet of anydesired shape having a rolling guiding member extending transversely ofthe widest portion of the guidingopening provided thereby.

It further includes the particular construction of this guiding memberand the arrangement or construction employed for mounting the same inthe eyelet proper or the rim of the eyelet.

It also includes the details of construction and combination of parts,as will be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in theclaim. 7

While the invention is susceptible of many modifications, theaccompanying drawings illustrate what is now conceived to be thepreferred embodiment of the same.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the invention applied to a shoe-upper.Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a similarsectional view taken at right angles to Fig. 2.

As before premised, the improved eyelet is illustrated in theaccompanying drawings as applied to a shoe-upper and is shown as ofcircular contour, having a circular guidingopening.

The outer rim a of the eyelet is, as usual, crimped upon the contiguousportion of the material forming the article to which the same isapplied. At diametrically opposite points in the inner face or wall ofthe rim a circular recesses or sockets b are located, axially of whichsmall openings or sockets c are arranged. Extending transversely of theguiding-opening of the eyelets, with its ends projecting into saidsockets b and snugly fitting the circular walls thereof, is acylindrical roller d, having axially-arranged end pintles e, findingbearings inthe openings or sockets c. The roller, as shown, extendsdiametrically across the guiding-opening of the eyelet and provides aguiding member for the lacing which is passed through said opening. Bythe particular arrangement or construction of the socketed rim havingthe ends of the guiding member at projecting thereinto the lacing isprevented from slipping between the ends of said member and the rim,thusavoiding checking the roller or tearing thelacing,which might occurshould the latter become fastened or caught between either end of saidroller and the contiguous portion of the rim.

The construction and operation of my invention will be readilyunderstood upon reference to the foregoing description and accompanyingdrawings, and it will be appreciated that the parts and combinations maybe varied within a wide range without departing from the spirit of thesame. I

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is--v As anarticle of manufacture, an eyelet having diametrically-arranged socketsin the wall of the guiding opening thereof, andopenings in the rimaxially of said sockets, and a cylindrical rolling guiding member havingits ends confined in said sockets, and pintles projecting axially fromsaid ends journaled in said openings, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARNOLD A. KUEHLHORN.

Witnesses: S. A. FLOREN,

B. O. CUTTING.

